Creator/JackieChan's fourth starring role, and the one that put him on the map.

UsefulNotes/WongFeiHung is a young, [[ArrogantKungFuGuy irresponsible martial arts student]] who, in the space of one day, manages to anger his kung fu instructor by demonstrating that the instructor was an incompetent in front of the entire class, antagonize his aunt by [[KissingCousins making advances towards her daughter]], and a local nobleman for beating the crap out of his ([[RoyalBrat very snooty]]) son. As punishment, his father sends him to train under Beggar So, who has a reputation for crippling his students. Naturally, Fei-Hung doesn't like this idea, and so he escapes, only to run into Beggar So, who gives him brutally rigorous training. At first, Fei-Hung hates his mentor, but he comes to respect him and becomes a much more proficient martial artist. At the end, Fei-Hung uses his new knowledge to defeat an assassin after his father.

Later, there was a sequel of sorts in the form of ''Drunken Master II'', released in North America as ''Legend of Drunken Master''. Wong Fei-Hung accidentally comes into possession of several valuable Chinese artifacts, which smugglers are trying to sell to {{Evil Brit}}s. In 2005, Time Magazine declared this movie one of the 100 best movies of all time, and Creator/RogerEbert rates the climactic foundry fight as probably the best fight scene ever committed to film.----

[[folder:First Film]]* AddictionPowered: Of course, seeing how his mastery is ''drunken''. The negative consequences of this are explored in the second movie.* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Fei-Hung disrespects people and does whatever he wants because he thinks he can either fight or trick his way out of anything. His CharacterDevelopment requires him to learn some self-discipline and humility.* AssKicksYou: Fei-Hung's interpretation of "Drunken Miss Ho" involves hip-checks to unbalance the opponent; he even tries an ass-drop attack on Yan Ti San, but Yan manages to dodge it.* BadassGrandpa: Beggar So looks like a washed up old guy, but he's surprisingly awesome in a fight.* BoozeBasedBuff: The trick to Drunken Boxing is that you [[CripplingOverspecialization actually have to be drunk for it to work effectively.]] See WorfHadTheFlu below for more.* BrilliantButLazy: Fei-Hung is an expert fighter, no doubt about it. He's probably be an even better one if he spent as much time training as he did trying to get out of training.* CombatHandFan: In the second movie, Fei-Hung uses one to great effect against a giant mook. The saying written on it also inspired him to use a BoozeBasedBuff to defeat the BigBad and TheDragon.* CombatPragmatist: Beggar So. His first appearance has him throw a metal kettle of boiling water at the DumbMuscle who was vain enough to fight bare chested, and he keeps going from there. Of course, he's a vagrant as well as a martial arts master, his lifestyle has no need of "fair play".* DrunkenBoxing: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin If it wasn't obvious.]]* [[DrunkenMaster Drunken Masters]]: The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]], of course.* EvilBrit: The villains of the sequel, who steal Chinese artifacts to the British Museum of Art. Interestingly, the English dub uses American voice actors for good Chinese characters (save Creator/JackieChan himself) while using a British voice actors for a villainous Chinese character.* EvilVirtues: Yan Ti San/Thunderleg is a killer for hire. Off the clock he is an ArrogantKungFuGuy ''par excellence'', but once he is hired, he is a ConsummateProfessional; he cannot be bribed or rehired by the current target to kill his current client, and he will not relent until his target is dead.* FatalFlaw: Fei-Hung is not nearly as clever as he thinks himself to be, and he is constantly slacking off from training. This goes beyond being merely BrilliantButLazy however, as he never bothers to learn the eighth form of Drunken Boxing ("Drunken Miss Ho" which he feels is too feminine to work in a fight) and he has to make up his own eighth form in the final fight to keep from getting killed. He gets over this hangup by the second film, where he uses the form to psych opponents out.* IAmNotLeftHanded: Yan Ti San is most likely called Thunderleg in the English dub because he relies heavily on a slower fighting style that emphasizes power over speed, punctuated with lethal kicks. In the final fight with Fei-Hung, he reveals a hitherto-unseen style; The Shadowless Hand, a punching technique so fast that the human eye can't track it.* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: One reason Fei-Hung returns to Beggar-So and takes his training more seriously is his defeat at the hands of another martial artist, Yan Ti San. (Thunderleg, in the English dub)* OldMaster: Beggar-So is exactly the kind of wandering master one wouldn't expect to be a master. He's also usually drunk.* OutGambitted: When Fei-Hung tried to walk out of the restaurant without paying, he attempted the old "that old guy over there's paying" trick. "That old guy over there" just happened to be the owner of the restaurant. Worse, Fei-hung claimed the guy was his father. Which prompted the head waiter to ask "You have more than one father?". The head waiter just happened to be the son of the owner and added "You must be a bastard, then". Obviously, the owner and his family had seen this trick before and don't mind giving so much food away for free if it means they get to teach the perpetrator a lesson.** Fei-Hung's luck at gambits extends to his tutelage under Beggar So; See below.* PecFlex: The restaurant bouncer, Iron Gorilla, enjoys using this technique.* ShellGame: Beggar So stops to gamble against Rat the Iron Headed Bullet. Rat tries to run a rigged shell game, and is easily caught. * TrainingFromHell: The usual methods apply here, like scooping water from a bucket with teacups only to fill another bucket while upside down.** It's worth noting that the training wouldn't ''be'' so hellish if Fei-Hung wasn't trying to weasel his way out of it. In the teacups instance, he makes to fill the bucket directly with the other while Beggar So is taking a nap. However, So is one step ahead of him and when an [[BlatantLies obviously winded]] Fei-Hung announces he's completed his task, So tells him to now empty that bucket out with teacups roughly the size of [[UpToEleven shot glasses.]]* TrashTalk: Yan Ti San is a master of this.* TheTrickster: Fei-Hung is very sneaky, one reason why he's in enough trouble to be sent away for special training. * [[TricksterMentor Trickster Mentor]]: Beggar-So is equally sneaky, finding interesting ways to keep Fei-Hung from running away from his (often brutal) training.* WorfHadTheFlu: As stated above, Drunken Boxing requires one to be legitimately intoxicated. The one time in the film Beggar So is forced to fight sober (because Fei-Hung was too lazy to complete a booze run and filled So's flask with water instead,) he is rapidly outclassed.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Second Film]]* FakePregnancy: [[spoiler: Seemingly Ling does this to distract the father from beating Fei-Hung and she reacts nervously whenever her husband refers to her supposed pregnancy. It turns out she really was pregnant and simply knew when to time the news to her advantage.]]* MamaBear: Ling is relentless in protecting her stepson from his father.* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: It rates a 4. It's mostly bloodless martial arts mayhem, but it can still get a bit rough.* NotSoHarmlessVillain: John. In the beginning he comes off as the brains of the henchmen, especially with his huge nerd glasses. Come the final fight though, he winds up being Fei-Hung's last opponent and likely the most dangerous of them when he reveals his powerful kicking techniques.* VitriolicBestBuds: Ling and Marlon, they quarrel over the attention of their female friend and argue about their fighting styles, but it's clear they are protective of each other.* WellDoneSonGuy: Fei-Hung genuinely respects his father, despite all the trouble he's caused; After a particularly out-of-control bender where he mistakes his father for an opponent, Fei-Hung agrees to give up drunken boxing permanently. Mind you, this is somewhere roughly in the end of the second act and we've still got at least one more big fight to go, so it isn't ''that'' permanent.[[/folder]]----